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How Ontario's second wave of COVID-19 is hitting long-term care
One in six homes is currently battling an outbreak, more than 250 residents with COVID-19 have died this month
Mike Crawley - CBC News
Posted: 5 Hours Ago
The province announced Saturday that the management of two more long-term care homes battling outbreaks — Rockcliffe Care Community in Toronto and Langstaff Square in Richmond Hill — is being temporarily handed to local hospitals. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)
Despite promises of an "iron ring" around Ontario's long-term care homes, the second wave of COVID-19 has brought hundreds of cases and deaths among their elderly residents.
More than 100 homes are currently battling an outbreak of the novel coronavirus among either staff or residents, according to the
latest figures published by the Ministry of Health.
So far in November, the deaths of 255 long-term care residents with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported by the province.
With an additional 545 active confirmed cases among residents, and experience showing as many as one in three people over age 80 who contract the virus succumb, there's fear that hundreds more will die before a vaccine campaign rolls out in Ontario's long-term care homes.
"Families are scared and they're angry," said Vivian Stamatopoulos, an associate professor at Ontario Tech University and advocate for long-term care residents.